Commissions for Sanskrit Language
A panel headed by Shri N. Gopalaswami has been set up by this Ministry of Human Resource Development on November 18th, 2015 to assess and review the present schemes for the development of Sanskrit and Veda Vidya, to study and suggest ways and means to bring a qualitative change in Sanskrit Education both in School Education and Higher Education, and to suggest measures to integrate Sanskrit studies with other disciplines like Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medical Science & Law. The Second Sanskrit Commission led by Prof. Satya Vrat Shastri was set up on 10th January 2014. This Commission was asked to submit its recommendations within one year but it could not submit its report within that period and the Commissions term expired on 09.01.2015.
This information was given by the Union Human Resource Development Minister, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani today in a written reply to a Rajya Sabha question.
